Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-04-28
OUR RICHEST WOMEN.
A LOOK At THE MONEY QUEENS
OF AMERICA.
Gossip About the Miliionairesses OF
the United States-Kich Widows and
Wealthy Maidens-How Some Women
Manage Their Fortunes.

the United St8tes.niCh "iuo"s Huu
wealthy Maidens-How Some Women
Manage Their Fortunes.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, April 90.
The death Of the rich Catherine Wolfe calls
attention to the rich women Of the United
States. This is an age not only OF million
aires, but of millionairesses as well. The
wealthy women of the United States are now
numbered by hundreds, and every city has its
girls who are worth their weight in gold.
The richest woman of them all is, perhaps,
Mrs. Hetty Green, Of New York, who is
worth $50, 600 900, and has been estimated as
high as $40, 600 600 She is a sharp business
woman, and has mnde the el3, 600. 600 which
she received from her father breed rapidly.
She added 81, 900, 900 to her fortune by mar.
riage, and she cuts her expenses more closely
than many woman who is worth a thousand
times less Mrs Mark Hopkins, who is build
ing &, OOO, 600 palace at Great Darlington,
Mass, is, however, nearly as rich. She Is
worth somewhere between $50 600 and
$40, OOO, 600, but her money comes from her
husband, Mark Hopkins. who made for
tune out of the Central Pacific rail
road Hopkins estate when he died
was inventoried at SCI, 100000, and 1t
was worth fully one-third more. Nearly the
whole of this was left to Mrs. Hopkins, and
she spends her large income generously. Mrs.
Terry got one third of her husbands fortune
of about $50, OOO, 900, and in case her baby
dies she will get the rest. This baby is girl
not yet years old. Sine is worth at least
$50, 000, 900, and is said to be the wealthiest
baby in the world.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston, Of New York, is
said to be worth 81, 100000, and all her
relatives have gold galore. Mrs. Thomas A.
Scott, the widow of the railroad president
is worth $5,OOO. 900, and Mrs. Joseph Ha,ri
son, the widow of the man who built the first
railroad in Russia, 100000. Mrs. Jayne,
the widow of the patent medicine man, is
worth 81, 100000. Mrs. Josephine M. Aver.
who gets her money also from patent medi
cine is estimated to be worth from 81, 0O0, 900
to $5,O0O, 900, and Mrs. Edwin Stevens, Of
New York, has SIS, 100000.
New York has number Of o, her rich
widows. Mrs Martin Bates was left 81 500, :
600, which her husband made in dry goods,
and Mrs. Jane Brown received from her
husbands estate about q, GOO, 600, which was
accumulated in banking. Mrs w. E.
Dodge, estimated at 81, 600 900, sends much
of her income to the heather, and Mrs.
Robert Goelet, worth $3,OO0,0O0, owes her
fortune to hardware. Mrs. John C. Green is
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modore Vanderbilt has increased the s ,0O0, :
600 which she received from her husbands
estate until it is near 81, 600 600. Clarkson
Potters widow has all immense income. Mrs.
John Minturn Is worth 100000. Mrs.
Marshall o. Roberts, the eight millionaire
widow of a mining king, is said to have cried
when it was charged that she was about tc
marry President Arthur.
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Philadelphia widows are numerous, and
there are rich women of all kinds in the City
of Brotherly Love- l have spoken of Mrs
Tom SCOTS wealth. Mrs Disston, the widow
of the saw manufacturer who died not long
ago, is worth 100000 and she lives in q
marble palace. Mrs. John Ray Bnrtor
is worth $1,000, 900; Mrs M. W. Baldwin
the widow of the locomotive builder, is es
tmated as worth S2,00J 900, and Mrs. Charlie
, Bromley. the widow of carpet manu-
E faoturer, is worth about 81 ,0Oo, 900.
Tuere is a widow in Chicago, Mrs. Cyru
II Mccormick, who is sail to he worth $40,
co 900, and as to Washington's wealthy wild
ows they are many. Mrs. Admiral Dahlgrel
has several fine houses in the fashionable par
. of " Washington, and Mrs. John o. Evans, tn
widow Of the late president Of the Mutua
Union Telegraph company, owns much Wash
! ngton real estate. Mrs. Craig Wadsworth
OF New York, has a fine residence on Massa
chusetts avenue and is said to be wort
81, O00, 900 Mrs. Patten, the mother-in, law O
Congressman Glover, lives in a house wort
s15, O0J and keeps, it is said, $1,000 90 il
government bonds i'll the Washington banks
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$ AS to rich young women there are numer
GUS good catches in the United States. Mis-
Elizabeth Garrett, the sister of the presidcn
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be worth between SIS, 000, 90 and So, 900 O0i
and she is both bright and business like. Tn
three daughters of Francis A. Drexel, Q
Philadelphia, ore worth "a ,0OO, 900, and the,
is a millionaire girl in Tennessee name
Maud st. Pierre, who lately bought "a 90
ceres of coal lands and who has enoug
business ability to manage her own fortm,
and a husband as we'll Ono Of the riches
Young ladies in Washington is Miss Jenni
Riggs, whose father, George W. Riggs, was
Nartner Of w. w. Corcoran, and there is
Miss Bernice Morrison in st. Louis who Sc,
nral years ago was down on the tax lists q
icing worth $964, 800. Miss Clothide Palms
The Detroit beauty, whom Senator Jones i
vain tried to WOO, is said to be worth 81, 800
600, and she is as beautiful as she is rich, an
there is now hardly a city in the Unite
States which has not an heiress or two who's
fortune runs nlSn llto the nuHuTees OF tnot
,ands. Miss Benson, of Philadelphia, il
herited 81 500, 900 from her father. who ws
4 well known Philadelphia banker, and Mi
Helen Erben, another Philadelphia girl, til
laughter OF wealthy wool factor, is ais
worth million. 80.
Miss Erben is a fine horsewoman. Sh
drives a spanking pair of bay horses, All
often a tandem The Drexel girls are al,
fond of horses, and this is, in fact, their onl
dissipation. Each Of these three four million
aresses has a splendid Arabian steei whic
goes like the wind. They ride out from the
country seat near Philadelphia as early {
6o'clock in the morning, and they go gallopin
about the country until their checks are liI
roses They are said to be as well posted O
horses as veterinary surgeons, and they SOM
times, it is said. rub down their horses then
selves after they come in from hard drive
Mrs. Mark Hopkins is another great hors'
woman She is as fond of horses as was he
husband, and her stables at Great Bsrringtf
are among the completest and most con'for
able in the country. She keeps well bre
horses, and every fair day You may see hs
about Great Darlington driving behind pa
of fine trotters and herself holding the rein